“‘I was ready to be an atheist. I was going to be a Catholic or an atheist.’ In a recent column, David Brooks cites these words of Catholic singer-songwriter Audrey Assad as illustrative of what religious commitment feels like from the inside.
“‘A Catholic or an atheist.’ Isn’t it curious that Assad should feel herself caught between two possibilities having nothing in common? I struggle to understand her crisis. Assad’s life-experience and intellectual journey were such that, at the moment before her choice, both Catholicism and atheism seemed reasonable. The extremes touched one another. The vast space of compromise between Catholicism and atheism vanished.
Yes, that’s right – all those resting in a religion other than Catholicism or atheism (the latter, though its adherents hate to admit it,requires just as much daring as a religious commitment), have contented themselves with compromise. . . .”
In a recent commentary, John Peck, S.J., reflect on the all-encompassing aspects of Catholicism.
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The Jesuit Post: All or Nothing – And Certainly not Nothing (20 FEB 14)
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